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F and the M | 24 Feb 98 | 30 Apr 98 | Ontario | Who? | What? | About Whom? | Notes |
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F and the M | 24 Feb 98 | 30 Apr 98 | Ontario | Who? | What? | About Whom? | Notes |
Saturday newspapers often include a 'religion' page which can contain local announcements, columnists, and local and wire features. Here's what you would have read about religion on Saturday, 28 March 1998 if you had picked up a copy of the Cambridge Reporter, Globe and Mail, Guelph Mercury, Hamilton Spectator, Kitchener-Waterloo Record, Ottawa Citizen, Toronto Star and Toronto Sun.
| Cambridge Reporter 3 stories 67% wire 3 religious groups 67% international, 33% local |
Athletes give faith new visibility | by David Briggs, Associated Press | dealing mainly with Christianity, Islam | in an international story on page B6 |
| Prize winner puts focus on business | by Associated Press | dealing mainly with Christianity, Judaism, Islam | in an international story on page B6 | |
| Youth violence on the rise | by Erika Kubassek, Altared Views | dealing mainly with Christianity | in a local story on page B6 | |
| Globe and Mail 4 stories 25% wire 4 religious groups 75% international, 25% Canadian |
The land where kids have guns | by John Gray | mentioning Christianity | in an international story on page A1 |
| Church official guilty of theft | by Canadian Press | mentioning the United Church | in a Canadian story on page A11 | |
| A hell of an argument with God | by John Brady [guest] | dealing mainly with Catholicism | in an international story on page D14 | |
| How a god became God | by Martin Levin | dealing mainly with Judaism | in an international story on page D18 | |
| Guelph Mercury 7 stories 43% wire 11 religious groups 43% international, 57% local |
Bill Graf remembered | mentioning Hinduism | in a local story on page A3 | |
| Perusing Peru's past | by Michael Lollar, Scripps Howard News Service | mentioning indigenous religion | in an international story on page A6 | |
| Time to celebrate | by Carl Nelson | mentioning Catholicism | in a local story on page B1 | |
| Athletes are giving faith a new visibility | by Associated Press | dealing mainly with Christianity | in an international story on page C6 | |
| Chocolate-covered cherries her reward | by Lee Thomson, A Journey of Faith | dealing mainly with Evangelicalism (Lutheranism) | in an international story on page C6 | |
| Faith calendar | dealing mainly with Salvation Army, Presbyterianism, United Church, Anglicanism, Judaism, Unitarianism | in a local story on page C6 | ||
| Loss is part of living, but God gives comfort | by Robert White [guest] | dealing mainly with Christianity | in a local story on page C6 | |
| Hamilton Spectator 2 stories 0% wire 3 religious groups 100% local |
Boy, dog experience darkest horror | by Casey Korstanje, Faith and Ethics Reporter | dealing mainly with Christianity | in a local story on page A1 |
| I like workfare, man tells protesters | by Joanna Frape | mentioning Christianity, Evangelicalism, Presbyterianism | in a local story on page A3 | |
| Kitchener-Waterloo Record 9 stories 33% wire 13 religious groups 44% local, 11% Canadian, 56% international* |
Court orders wife's release | by Associated Press | dealing mainly with Judaism | in an international story on page A6 |
| Thousands view revenge killings | by Associated Press | dealing mainly with Islam (Taliban) | in an international story on page A6 | |
| 2 solitudes in Chinese Catholicism | by Renee Schoof, Associated Press | dealing mainly with Catholicism | in an international story on page G10 | |
| Anglican confirmation festival a first | by Record Staff | dealing mainly with Anglicanism | in a local story on page G10 | |
| Faith festivals | dealing mainly with Hinduism | in an international story on page G10 | ||
| Vision TV Highlights | dealing mainly with generic spirituality | in a Canadian story on page G10 | ||
| Coming events | dealing mainly with Presbyterianism, United Church, Lutheranism, Anglicanism, Pentecostalism, Unitarianism | in a local story on page G9 | ||
| Just 'being there' is test of faith | by Pauline Finch-Dürichen | dealing mainly with Christianity, Judaism, Islam | in a local, Canadian and international story on page G9 | |
| Some lessons divide, others unite | by Frank Morgan, Viewpoint | dealing mainly with Catholicism, Judaism | in a local story on page G9 | |
| Ottawa Citizen 7 stories 14% wire 7 religious groups 43% local, 29% Canadian, 29% international* |
His hero | by Bob Harvey | mainly dealing with Christianity, Evangelicalism | in a local story on page A1 |
| Anglicans shifting towards gay marriage | by Bob Harvey | dealing mainly with Christianity, Mainline Protestantism (Anglicanism) | in a Canadian story on page A5 | |
| How God changed my life | by Bob Harvey | dealing mainly with Christianity, Evangelicalism | in a local story on page A5 | |
| Bishop Neil Willard... | dealing mainly with Christianity, Catholicism | in a Canadian story on page B3 | ||
| Psychic readings 'empower' animals as well as humans | by Dave Mullington | dealing mainly with generic spirituality | in a local story on page C1 | |
| An enviable life | by Tom Austin, Ocean Drive Magazine | dealing mainly with Scientology | in an international story on pages E1, E6 | |
| Catholics were shocked... | dealing mainly with Christianity, Catholicism | in an international story on pages E15 | ||
| Toronto Star 8 stories 38% wire 12 religious groups 50% local, 13%Canadian, 50% international* |
Grieving town buries victims of ambush | by Reuters | mentioning Christianity | in an international story on page A14 |
| Stateless family hides out in church | by Maureen Murray | mentioning Catholicism | in a local and Canadian story on page A5 | |
| Briefly | by Star's News Services | dealing mainly with Catholicism, Sikhism, Judaism, Islam | in an international story on page L16 | |
| Bringing up kids in interfaith households | by Beverly McFarlane, Special | dealing mainly with Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism | in a local story on page L16 | |
| Messiah prediction could be 'worthless' | by Neil Altman and David Crowder, New York Times Syndicate | dealing mainly with Christianity, Judaism | in an international story on page L16 | |
| Scaling down is divinely human | by Margaret Boyce, Opinion | dealing mainly with generic spirituality | in a local story on page L16 | |
| A Kyrie for music's spiritual age | by Peter Goddard, Entertainment Reporter | dealing mainly with Catholicism, Mainline Protestantism: United Church, Anglicanism, Orthodox (Greek, Russian), Judaism | in a local story on page M3 | |
| Tensegrity -- just what the shaman ordered | by Philip Marchand, Book Critic | dealing mainly with Shamanism | in an international story on page M8 | |
| Toronto Sun 4 stories 25% wire 4 religious groups 75% international, 25% local |
A tearful goodbye | by Associated Press | dealing mainly with Christianity | in an international story on page A10 |
| Family hides in church | by Dave Rider | dealing mainly with Christianity | in a local story on page A22 | |
| White stands by controversial words | dealing mainly with Evangelicalism (Baptist) | in an international story on page B11 | ||
| Religious experience | by Tony Maraschiello | mentioning Catholicism, Mormonism | in an international story on page B4 |
*For more information on the computation of percentages please see notes on the research.
Continue on to see what was in the news on 24 February 1998, or on 30 April 1998.